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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>&minus;</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''''The History of The Lord of the Rings''''' is a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">4-volume work </del>by [[Christopher Tolkien]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">that documents the process of [[J.R.R. Tolkien|J. R. R. Tolkien's]] writing of his masterwork ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' (LotR). The ''History'' is </del>also <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">numbered as volumes 6 to 9 of </del>''[[The History of Middle-earth]]''. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Some information can also be found in volume 12, </del>''[[The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Peoples </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Middle-earth</del>]]'' <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(concerning the appendices and a soon-abandoned sequel to the novel)</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''''The History of The Lord of the Rings''''' is a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">set of four books </ins>by [[Christopher Tolkien]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>also <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">published in </ins>''[[The History of Middle-earth]]''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-series</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">It documents the writing of </ins>''[[The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Lord </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the Rings</ins>]]''. &#160;</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"># </ins>''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''[[</ins>The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Return </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Shadow]]</ins>''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''' ([[1988]]) begins with </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">initial composition</ins>, and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">goes through </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the [[Mines of Moria]]</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"># '''</ins>''[[The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Treason of Isengard</ins>]]''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''' ([[1989]]) continues to </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">meeting with [[Théoden]]</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>&minus;</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"># (HoME 6) '''''[[The Return of the Shadow]]'''''(1988) begins with the initial composition, and goes through to the episode in the [[Mines of Moria]].</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">==Contents==</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>&minus;</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"># (HoME 8)'''''[[The War of the Ring]]''''' (1990) continues to the opening of the Black Gate.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>&minus;</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"># (HoME 9) '''''[[Sauron Defeated]]''''' (1992) finishes the story, which only takes about 1/3 of the volume.&#160; The remainder consists of&#160; ''[[The Notion Club Papers]]'', and another draft of the [[Drowning of Anadune]].</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>&minus;</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The drafts can be somewhat jarring to read; while much of the plot will be familiar, the characters are often quite different.&#160; For instance, [[Aragorn]] in his &quot;Strider&quot; guise is called &quot;Trotter&quot; instead - and he's a [[hobbit]] instead of a man - and he has wooden feet - because he had once been to [[Mordor]] and been tortured there.&#160; We find out that the hobbits travel east initially because that was the part of the world that had been mapped out, because of ''The Hobbit'', and that the areas to the south were literally being mapped out only a few miles ahead of the fellowship.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div></div></td></tr>
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